November 17, 2012

73 comments:

Never played Hive the restaurant menu looks good, but like all large university towns tofu dishes are a must. Professor you sure drink a lot, someone might mistake you for a lawyer instead of a law professor. Bottoms up

Wow, I can't believe Altouse is playing Hive.Her cred went up with me tenfold (even though she still voted for Obama the first time - groan).

Not my favorite game by a long shot, but I like how it's even known as a game. there are a bunch of other modern games like Hive (that I would lump in as Euro games) that a lot of people don't know about but which are all really good as games.

no, its just a board game that has bug tiles. Each bug has a special =move and the object is to surround your opponents piece. It plays in about five minutes. But I can see it appealing to people who like Chess (though it's much quicker)

We went to see Spielberg's Lincoln this afternoon and enjoyed every minute of it.

It was more of a lawyer's movie than an historical panorama that I had expected. Without the Constitutional Law complexity of the day being explained in great detail, the plot makes no sense, and I expect few will understand it anyway.

The movie ends with Thaddeus Stevens and Lincoln joining forces to win the 2/3 vote in a House for the 13th Amendment. Of course it was Lincoln's assassination that Stevens finishes the job by adding 14th and 15th thereby reversing the 10th's reservation of power to the States to an effective grant of powers to the States only when the Federals say so.

It is well worth the time to see it. IMO Con Law students need to see it as course material.

Brought home 5 puppies today 3 months old, Black Lab/Golden Ret. It's a puppy circus at my house. I can only keep them for one day, I already have 5 full size dogs. Hoping to get them to take over someone else's life tomorrow.

I rented a movie on Youtube today for the first time. That works pretty well. It was a sci/fi I never heard of before called "Splice" - $1.99. Some young very attractive geneticists create a human hybrid animal, that grows very quickly of course. It starts out looking like a cross between a bald Boston Terrier and a chicken, and then grows up to be a young Sinead O'connor with ostrich legs. The special effects on the creature were very realistic. It acted mostly human and ended up too human. It seduced Adrien Brody, and then changed sex to a male and raped his girlfriend. That is just rude. I enjoyed it on a rainy L.A. morning.

Saw the new Bond movie tonight and it was awwwwwwwesome. Great hammy--but not too hammy--villain acting from Javier Bardem and Mr. Craig was in fine form. My husband thought they showed his muscles more than was dignified, but I disagreed : )

Felt sorry for all the hapless boyfriends and husbands who were lined up for the Twilight movie with their giddy womenfolk. Silly ladies; that's what your girlfriends are for.

How a dream team of engineers from Facebook, Twitter, and Google built the software that drove Barack Obama's reelection

As always, the little weasel shows not only no respect, compassion, or empathy (yes, he is a Liberal, truly and is still no doubt smarting from the bitch slapping the great vb once gave him), but is headed for a fall in other ways.

The money quote, from (are you ready?) the NBC affiliate in the Windy City:

In critical swing states like Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Illinois there are a lot of precincts in Philadelphia, Cleveland, and Chicago which reported 100% of their votes cast for Obama. These add up to many 10's of thousands of votes for Obama and 0 for Romney. I repeat, 0 for Romney. I have read a number of articles about this and people knowlegable in Political Science and Statistics are starting to take notice of this.Statistically, even if among 10's of thousands of voters all wanted to vote for Obama, it would not be possible to receive 100% of the vote because at least a few would make a mistake and vote incorrectly for Romney. Not to mention the fact that a least a few of those 10's of thousands might actually disagree with Obama. These types of election returns are only seen in countries run by dictators.

I know a lot of sports fanatics who make excuses when their team loses, and in some cases they blame the ref and say stupid things like "we would have won but the ref stole the game from us." I understand why they say things like that and I don't believe it's a sign of cognitive failure.

So when edutcher whimpers about how Mittens "was winning" or when he cries about how the election was stolen by cheating Democrats, I write it off to his unwillingness to accept facts that contradict his deeply held wishes. But once edutcher started insisting that Mittens won in a "landslide"--a claim that even the goofiest conspiracy theorists would find ridiculous--he crossed the line from extreme partisan denial to lunacy.

Seems to me the politics of R control of the house, and the D's control of the administration and senate will result in divided government--and the libertarian side of me thinks thats a good thing. And if the estimable Mr Silver things the R's will keep control of the house in 2014, we will continue to have divided government--which to me is always a good thing.

Thanks for asking, Inga. I saw the NP at my oncologist's office and was able to squeeze out some Cheez Liz for her, and she took a sample in a culture kit.

I was supposed to call back for results but I've been busy--my conference, busy registration period, etc.--I keep forgetting to call because once I get to the office, all I think about is what I need to do at work.

You'd think if it were frightening bad news, they'd be trying like crazy to reach me. But I know that's not always the case, either.

Chemobrain's a bitch. I forgot to cancel a Friday deposition until Thursday evening--TG my attorney was still in her office.

my thought again on this beautiful Sunday morning: I care about solutions to our country's problems. It will be up to our elected represenatives to fix them. As long as there is no consensus among the political classes, we will be doomed to repreat an other four years of stalemate--and the country and its people will bear the brunt of the failings of our political class,

It is possible that the left and right can agree--Re Jake's comments about "cheese" I gotta tell you nipple discharge is something I cant deal with--The next downward step will be a discussion about smegma. :)

Inga--re UK--those dirty bastards stole John Calipari from the university of Memphis--as far as moonshining goes, Perry County KY was for nearly 100 years the moonshine capital of KY--doesnt require a degree--just a still and a source of corn or rye.

I've laughed more in the last couple of days than the last couple of months.

It has the "peek behind the curtain" aspect that lets you feel as if you are in on a secret, yet is always very funny on its own joke-to-funny ratio merits regardless of the endless cameos and the idolism/workplace power play realms the show enters.

Only a couple of nasty Hollywood bigotry jokes about C. Thomas and Jesse Helms so far. Considering the jokes that abound because they are funny and not hateful, I don't mind the prejudiced jokes as much as I do in today's dimwitted film and television (which I don't pay for beyond Netflix as it happens).

J. Garofalo is kinda sweet in it too in her own small way, which I found very surprising.

My respect for Roger, as an officer and a perfect gentleman, is boundless.

However, if this election was stolen, and it was, it would seem somebody needs to make a fuss over it.

Jake Diamond said...

So when edutcher whimpers about how Mittens "was winning" or when he cries about how the election was stolen by cheating Democrats, I write it off to his unwillingness to accept facts that contradict his deeply held wishes. But once edutcher started insisting that Mittens won in a "landslide"--a claim that even the goofiest conspiracy theorists would find ridiculous--he crossed the line from extreme partisan denial to lunacy.

I hope he gets help. He needs it.

When Diamond doesn't get his way, he goes all foul-mouthed.

When somebody points out facts Diamond doesn't like, he goes all Alinsky as goes the demonize, isolate route.

The quote he claims is from the NBC affiliate in Chicago is actually from a reader comment. As we all know, websites don't require readers to leave rational comments, so people like edutcher and the lunatic who left the comment edutcher cites are free to wander about the internet and attach their crazy opinions to various websites.

The fact that some reader posts an ignorant rant about statistics and dictatorships at a news website doesn't mean that the news organization promotes the nutty theory.

It would be a really swell surprise if edutcher got something right sometime.